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- From: patrick@rio-grande.is.rice.edu (Patrick L Humphrey)
- Subject: Re: Who are you guys?
- In-Reply-To: brinkley@cs.utexas.edu's message of 22 Jan 1993 20:59:36 -0600
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- Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1993 06:22:52 GMT
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- On 22 Jan 1993 20:59:36 -0600, brinkley@cs.utexas.edu (Paul Brinkley) said:
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- >In article <PATRICK.93Jan18195144@lampasas.is.rice.edu> patrick@lampasas.is.rice.edu (Patrick L Humphrey) writes:
- >>On 18 Jan 1993 12:45:03 -0600, brinkley@cs.utexas.edu (Paul Brinkley) said:
- >>
- >>>...I've met a good number of "bible-thumpers",
- >>>and I'm convinced that most of them had nothing but good intentions, and
- >>>certainly didn't appear to be aspiring to power. I think it's just that
- >>>the ambitious ones get many times more press....
- >>
- >>...and can do the most damage to their own cause in the process. Me, I've
- >>always looked at it like Mencken did: if you see someone coming towards you
- >>with the obvious intent of doing you good, your most prudent response is to
- >>run. :-) (Not to mention the old saw about the road to hell being paved
- >>with good intentions -- some of the anti-choice folks are just the least bit
- >>scary precisely because of their good intentions, combined with their
- >>complete ignorance of the consequences of said intentions.)
-
- >No contention on that point. If you intend to run from a moron with good
- >intentions, you'll have to race me, bucko. After, of course, I fling
- >myself into a brick wall trying to edify the poor soul.
-
- Well, I may be approaching the time when I'm starting to push 40, but I can
- still move fast if i have to...so while you're bringing down the wall, I'll be
- running interference for you. :-)
-
- >The way I see it, good intentions are often harder to come by than the
- >social equivalent of "clue", so I'll be thankful for what we have.
-
- That makes two of us. (Three if you count my wife, even though she's not
- exactly brimming with good intentions at the moment, after surviving the annual
- inventory-taking at JCPenney's Sharpstown store...:-)
-
- >>>>--PLH, Rice 2-0, UT 0-3...come on, January 30!
- >>
- >>>That was a most malicious cut on an admittedly weak point in our campus.
- >>>We'll see if you get any Christmas cookies this December.
- >>
- >>Might as well nuke my chances for '94 as well, then -- since I wrote that,
- >>it's now Rice 3-0, UT 0-4...and the 30th is less than two weeks away. Pass
- >>the barbecue sauce, because Bevo's going to dinner...:-)
-
- >Playing on my love of BEEF now, are ya?? Gimme that brisket!
-
- >*snatch*
-
- >(hey, this ain't Bevo; the meat's too tender...)
-
- Of course not -- you just snagged Tom Penders. :-) (Of course, assuming the
- Owls got pounded in Waco tonight, they're going to be just the least bit testy
- when they get home...)
-
- --PLH, now, if Cougar High would stumble a few times...
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